It has been proven by researchers that conversion therapy doesn't work. If anything, these treatments are more a form of psychological torture than a way to turn your LGBTQ+ family members cisgender heterosexuals.
But there are still people who swear their experiences "turned them straight." These people are now calling themselves the "Changed" movement.
Though it's not so much a movement as it is a very small group of people, as they displayed at a "rally" in Washington, DC.
There\u2019s an \u201cex-gay\u201d rally happening in DC today\u2026pic.twitter.com/AjoL1iD3oU— @DCHomos (@@DCHomos) 1622923182
By the way they "dance" you can tell right away they were never truly gay to begin with— Bernardo Marra (@Bernardo Marra) 1623010063
It must have been tough for them to be gay and not be able to dance. They probably also have no fashion sense.— mike (@mike) 1623035371
I can never understand why people care SO much about what another person chooses to do with THEIR life. It effects them in no shape or form. They waste that energy instead of getting their own life together. Case & point\u2026— JMilionair (@JMilionair) 1623026537
What a waste of energy. It\u2019s hilarious they aren\u2019t bother by the light attendance pic.twitter.com/5C05WPEJHO— Bree Sea (@Bree Sea) 1623022652
A social media post promoting the rally for the Changed movement described the event as a "diverse group of former LGBTQ individuals in worshipping, sharing our testimonies, and celebrating freedom in Christ publicly on the Mall in Washington!"
The group of mostly White people did not appear to match this description.
*blank stare*https://twitter.com/dchomos/status/1401267506849931270\u00a0\u2026— DJ Nah FR (@DJ Nah FR) 1623078964
scuse me A what ?https://twitter.com/dchomos/status/1401267506849931270\u00a0\u2026— Baby Fucking New Yr \ud83d\udc10 (@Baby Fucking New Yr \ud83d\udc10) 1623077162
some fire closeted guilt-laden homosexual intercourse about to happen herehttps://twitter.com/DCHomos/status/1401267506849931270\u00a0\u2026— alek_bot (@alek_bot) 1623070373
This is by far the worst thing I've seen this weekhttps://twitter.com/DCHomos/status/1401267506849931270\u00a0\u2026— Skeptic Lefty (@Skeptic Lefty) 1623067513
they're totally not gay they're just having an outdoor event with live music, a dj, singing, dancing, and matching shirts and color schemes celebrating their personal identities in the month of junehttps://twitter.com/DCHomos/status/1401267506849931270\u00a0\u2026— Austin \ud83c\udf3b\ud83d\udc8c (@Austin \ud83c\udf3b\ud83d\udc8c) 1623057794
The Changed movement actively lobby against LGBTQ+ equality, including the Equality Act currently making its way through Congress.
Elizabeth Woning, the group's co-founder, referred to the people in the Changed movement as "Christians with LGBTQ in our past. Many, like us, have changed. We left LGBTQ because we wanted to."
However, in the past few years, many ex-gay leaders have come out of the closet as still very very much gay, including David Matheson, a Mormon conversion therapist who quite literally wrote the book on ex-gay conversion therapy in the Church of Latter Day Saints. McRae Game, who lead a conversion ministry in South Carolina for 20 years also admitted he always remained gay.
This looks about as authentic and genuine as Jason Kenney and the UCP\u2019s Pride Pancake Breakfast.https://twitter.com/dchomos/status/1401267506849931270\u00a0\u2026— Handmaids For Kenney (@Handmaids For Kenney) 1623032057
They not slick having diet Pride.https://twitter.com/dchomos/status/1401267506849931270\u00a0\u2026— Can you dig it? (@Can you dig it?) 1623026022
Me when I liehttps://twitter.com/dchomos/status/1401267506849931270\u00a0\u2026— \ud835\udcdc (@\ud835\udcdc) 1623023592
This is so sad.https://twitter.com/dchomos/status/1401267506849931270\u00a0\u2026— Amanda Quraishi (@Amanda Quraishi) 1623020852
Honey... Its too hot for self hate.https://twitter.com/DCHomos/status/1401267506849931270\u00a0\u2026— Baby Jr. \ud83d\udcdf (@Baby Jr. \ud83d\udcdf) 1623016592
The idea queerness can be reversed is quickly becoming a relic of the past. Several states passed laws banning conversion therapy being forced on people against their will.
